DEA Pre driver education Research is based on the following key research material.

Monash University Accident & Research Centre

• Evaluation of pre-driver education program (comparing in car with no car ) Monash University Accident Research Centre - Report #167 – 2000, Authors: N. Haworth, N. Kowadlo & C. Tingvall
• Mitsopoulos, P. & Regan, M. (2001) 'Passenger influences on young driver safety: implications for countermeasure development', Proceedings Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 
• Fildes, B. & Langford, J. (2002) 'Graduated licensing programmes and young-driver crashes', The Lancet, 359 (9308), 2 March, pp725-726
• Langford, J. (2002) 'Using the research to reduce novice driver crashes', Proceedings Developing Safer Drivers and Riders, 21-23 July, Brisbane, Qld., Travelsafe Committee of the Queensland Parliament and the Australian College of Road Safety
• Senserrick, T. (2002) 'Training young drivers: Can it work?' Proceedings Developing Safer Drivers and Riders, Brisbane, Qld., Australian College of Road Safety,
• Senserrick, T. & Haworth, N. (2004) 'Young driver research: where are we now? What do we still need to know?' Proceedings 2004 Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 14-16 November, Perth, Western Australia, Vol 1, 13p
• The effects of text messaging on young novice driver performance Monash University Accident Research Centre - Report #246 [2006]Authors: Hosking, S.G., Young, K.L., & Regan, M.A.
• Review of literature regarding national and international young driver training, licensing and regulatory systems Monash University Accident Research Centre - Report #239 [2005] Authors: T. Senserrick & N. Haworth

RACV

• Learner Driver Experience Project, MUARC , Harris A, 2004.
• Novice driver review, RACV submission to the Raod Safety Council of Australia. July 2005.
• The effectiveness of driver training as a road safety measure. R. Christie.

Federal Office of Road Safety

• Young Driver Research Program: Evaluation of the Australian Graduated Licensing Scheme . Federal Office of Road Safety.

Australian Transport Safety Bureau

• Road Deaths Australia is a monthly bulletin presenting the latest fatal road crash data as well as recent historical comparisons. It is produced by the ATSB using monthly data supplied by the eight states and territories.
• DEVELOPMENT OF NOVICE DRIVER EDUCATION/DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM NOVICE DRIVER COACHING PROGRAM . Prepared for the ATSB By Dr Ron Christie & Warren Harrison.
• Managing Driver Fatigue: Quantifying real world performance impairment . Research team Baulk, S. D., Biggs, S., van den Heuvel, C., Reid, K., Dawson, D. - Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia. 2004/05.
• Beliefs and Attitudes about Speeding and its Countermeasures, Julie Hatfield and R.F. Soames, 2002.

Latrobe University, Health Sciences

• "The development of hazard perception skills in novice drivers".  PhD thesis research by Gillian Evans under the supervision of Wendy Macdonald.
• Catchpole, J.E, and Macdonald, W.A. (1996) The influence of youthfulness and inexperience on driving behaviour and crashes. Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, Melbourne, 167-176.
• Macdonald, Wendy A. 1998 Driving Competencies for Learner Drivers (58pp). VicRoads RUB97/98-13, Melbourne.
• Evans, T. and Macdonald, W. 2002. The nature of novice drivers' situation awareness: an exploratory study. Proceedings of the 2002 Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Adelaide, South Australia. ISBN 1-876346-46-9. Causal Productions

Further National

• Christie, R. (2001), The effectiveness of driver training: a review of the literature, RACV, Literature Report No 01/03, Noble Park, Victoria.
• Drummond, A.E. (1989), An Overview of Novice Driver Performance Issues: A Literature Review, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne.
• Harrison, W.A. (2002), What can parrots tell us about acquiring hazard perception skills? Conference Proceedings, Developing Safer drivers and Riders, The Australian College of Road Safety, Mawson, Australian Capital Territory, p.10.
• Horneman, C. (1993), Driver Education and Training: A Literature Review, (Research Note RN 6/93), Road Safety Bureau, Roads and Traffic Authority, Sydney.
• Hull, M. (1991), Mandatory Hazard Perception as a means of reducing the road toll amongst Novice Drivers, (Discussion paper No. 0 7306 1390 9). VICROADS Road Safety Division. Melbourne.
• Job, R.F.S. (1990), The Application of learning theory to driving confidence: the effect of age and the impact of random breath testing, Accident Analysis and Prevention. Vol. 22 No. 2 pp. 97&endash;107.
• Job, R.F.S. (1999), The Road User: The Psychology of Road safety, Safe and Mobile: Introductory Studies in Traffic Safety, Emu Press, Armidale.
• Langford, J. (2002), Using the research to reduce novice driver crashes, Conference Proceedings, Developing Safer Drivers and Riders, The Australian College of Road Safety, Mawson, Australian Capital Territory, p.36.
• Lord, P. (2000), Advanced blindness: Advanced driver training produces safer drivers, right? Maybe, maybe not, say the experts, Wheels Magazine, pp. 21-23.
• Milech, D. D., Glencross, D. and Hartley, L., (1989), Skills Acquisition by Young Drivers, University of Western Australia, Perth.
• Saffron, D. (1982), Driver instruction: some future research directions in driver training - Steering a course for the future, Transport Regulation Board, Melbourne.
• Sleet, D., Egger, G. and Albany, P. (1991), Injury as a public health problem, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2, pp.4-9.
• Staysafe 18, (1990), Steering novice drivers towards safety, Parliament of New South Wales, Sydney.
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International

• Näätänen, R. and H. Summala, Road User Behaviour and Traffic Accidents, 1976. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
• Evans, L. (1991), Traffic Safety and the Driver, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
• A review of: Young novice drivers, driver education and training. Literature review, Reima Lehtimäki, Soila Judén-Tupakka, and Matti Tolvanen. 2005. (finland)
• Engström, I., Gregersen, N. P., Hernetkoski, K., Keskinen, E. Nyberg, A. 2003. Young novice drivers, driver education and training. Literature review. VTI rapport 491A, 2003. SEK 250.

Australasian Road safety Research, Policing and Education  Conference 2006.

• Graduated Driver Licensing, competitors or complements. Driver education and graduated licensing. Lyndel Bates,
• Supervised driving, experience in learner drivers- the DRIVE study. Dr Rebecca Ivers.
• Factors influencing young drivers risk perceptions and speeding behaviours. Dr Tony Machin.
• Vision and safety, development of peripheral vision tests for driver assessment.